Half Life was released in 1998, which means.....dear god in heaven.....that some of you might not have even been alive to play it.

Or you were, but couldn't do much more than drool on the keyboard and gnaw the mouse like a rusk.

Luckily for you, some die-hard fans have spent the past 8 years using Valve's own tools to lovingly rebuild the legendary locale that Gordon Freeman escaped over a decade ago .

.well, most of it. Xen is missing for now, but that bit was sh*t, so who cares?

Black Mesa will be free to download on the 14th September .which really did surprise me. When I first heard about the project (a good few years back) I thought Valve themselves would snap up the concept and bundle it in with an "Orange Box 2".I'm usually opposed to remakes, but the prospect of seeing Half Life 1 rendered in glorious Half Life 2 detail does make the geeky nerves tingle.

To be honest I just find anything in Source really boring now as I've played HalfLife 2+ to death as well as a LOT of games being based on Source as well as using the same models... But for die hard fans of HL1 I'm sure it'll be great for ya =3

Also keep in mind that high expectations is a sure fire way to end up hating something. If don't take off the nostalgia goggles before playing Black Mesa, you'll end up making a HtP about how it sucks.

I was still really young when Half Life came out. Stumbled upon Ross Scott's "Freeman's Mind" back around episode 7 or 8 (?). Proceeded to buy Half Life... And Half Life 2... then Episode 1 & 2. Both left 4 dead's came somewhere in that time frame, as well as Opposing Force and Blue Shift (which no longer works for me anymore). And many more games not created by Valve. Never would have thought that one video could lead me to spend so much money (granted, over a period of a few years).

Was born at the start of the 90s so was around when Half Life was out never cared for it however didn't know much about it but when finally saw and played Half Life 2 lets just say I got interested fast in the series so YAY HL1 remake!

I was there when it was released and altough I just watched my brothers play it at first it has always been my favorite game.^^ I've been following Black Mesa since my brother became one of the die-hard fans working on it. I haven't checked the site lately though so I got these glorious news from you first.

Well, I was around, but being 8 at the time plus having no control over the computer plus the fact that I wouldn't hear of Half-Life some 6 years later meant that I never got to play it. Hmmm.... might have to get that...

Valve notice Black Mesa is released. A week later Half Life 3 appears on steam. No announcement, its just uploaded and they move on. And from deep within his lair on Tatooine, Gabe Newell feeds another coder to his Rancor.

If he reacted like that then my stone is just one of many made in the lightest of whimsies. Have you seen some of the gifs made using his face alone. Gabe's face on a naked womans body...disturbing to say the least.

Heh. Will be fun to hear the current gamer crowd go into a full power spin over how hard it is. If they actualy make it as "hard" as the original was. As in, not terribly for us oldschool gamers, but by comparison to modern games... fiendishly hard.

Now this, I would like to see. I was given Half-Life years ago. For the longest time I couldn't play it because I didn't have a computer of my own. When I finally did, I installed it. An it was fun. When I made cheats work, I went around killing all the scientists and Barneys, flying through the walls and killing everyone I saw. Of course, there was the VALVe sale which was $50 for all their games. I bought that.

In 1998 I was...nineteen. So I could have played it if I had a computer that could run it.(The hazards of all your computers being castoffs from your parents. Fortunately my dad needs powerful computers for his work...)

Yeah I been flowing this project from the very start, and were so disappointed when it didn't came out in 2009 as the first announced it to be. I tough still happy that it actually got finished, and didn't die somewhere in the way. So I can't wait to get my hands on it and replay the game I so loved.

As someone who never actually played Half Life 1, and really didn't even know of it until we were far passed its graphical era, I'm really excited to play this remake. I've loved HL2, though been a bit lazy in finishing episode 2.